Parag Saxena is a global investor who leads Vedanta Capital, as its Founding CEO and heads NSR Partners an India focused growth capital firm he co-founded in 2008. Over the span of his three and a half decades long career in investing, Parag has been a part of teams that have collectively made investments in companies valued around $US 500 billion that have created hundreds of thousands of jobs. His robust portfolio of investments includes bio-pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, consumer services, housing finance, logistics, technology and finance, medical devices, healthcare services, and education

Parag engages with science, technology & medicine with the same ease as he does with philosophy, poetry and the culinary arts. Curious about the interface of genomics and artificial intelligence, he also investigates the benefits of various holistic and complementary medical regimens. Passionate about skiing and tennis, Parag is constantly looking to scale new peaks in life.

A Distinguished Alumnus from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Parag Saxena did his Master’s in Chemical Engineering from the University of West Virginia and went on to do his MBA at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.